Detailed look at the 1977 Braun PC4000 stereo system
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- Here is a 1977 Braun PC4000 stereo system I picked up for free for a friend. It contains a radio receiver, cassette deck and record player. It features an unusual design and unusual functions!
Make sure to also watch the addendum to this video: Discovering some hidden features of the automatic record player, a look around back and some additional info.
• Braun PC4000 stereo sy...
00:00 Introduction
02:26 Radio Receiver
06:24 Cassette Deck
09:42 Record Player
13:30 Outro
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Make sure to also watch the addendum to this video: Discovering some hidden features of the automatic record player, a look around back and some additional info.
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That is a very nice system. Very unique, something I'd expect to see Techmoan doing a video on.
I'm glad about anything Techmoan has _not_ made a video about. He does make good videos, but once he makes a video about something, the prices go through the roof.
sometimes... ,a lot of them, he talks about things he doesn´t know or what are they for?like ,"heres a Roland boombox,..." this company without sight released a boombox with a 3.5 disquette ,not a song fit in the disquette. Roland is known for being bad in every thing they do or because most of the musicians in the world use Roland devices while others use Korg .when one call a boombox to what in reality is an Synthesizer workstation accompanist for live solo players. With a microphone input,(complete with echo!!), and a MIDI input for keyboard controllers and a built in MIDI file player ,they are in reality the PERFECT gig partner for solo artists with a disquette drive for samplers and even makes fun of it , he even seems high, he starts to sing: we´re up all night to get lucky. He does seem that everytime he was up all night, he never got lucky! don´t listen to a man that makes videos about things he don´t know ,but talks as a especialist, he thinks he fools everybody , regards
Tuner, cassette and record player, all in one, back in the '70s that's what was commonly known as a "music centre".
Michael Turner So that must be in U.K.?
Some were full hifi!
Pick-up,tuner and casette!
The eighties ones were visually stapled as an officially stereo rack...called midi stereo set...
For sure had you in that time more value for your money...a combi was around say now €450,- .....
We just called them "3-in-1's" (but it was an Aussie tradition in the '70s - get a few K-Tel records going, and tape them).
Attention to detail is more than impressive on this device.
It’s German-made. They’re meticulous with details.
I've seen some people use HUN in their username. Especially in my fav game Warthunder. What does the HUN part mean??
Wow no words..It's priceless... Awesome product...
A very beautiful unit with some really unique features.
German engineering at it's Best.
Great design never seen one before many thanks for sharing.
Looks like it was a reasonably high-end system especially for 1977. We used to call these 'Music Centres' here in the UK.
Remember Amstrad? :D
@@DolganoFF Yes i do. I had an amplifier, cassette deck and turntable made be them. All three where reasonably good unlike their AIO systems.
What a beautiful system. I had some Grundig consoles from the 70s and they were really bass heavy.
Well, actually I am able to get one of these Grundigs, but it will be quite a lot of work to do, since it is sitting in an old house for years now without getting used. Maybe even the capacitors need to be replaced :/
No surprise the Grundig consoles were bass heavy. Grundig often implemented hidden loudness circuits you couldn't turn off. Only the better models had a "linear" switch to bypass the loudness.
@@DaXande135 Trust me. They are built very well. I bet it works and the only problem will be the rubber bands on the record deck and cassette engine that need replacing. Clean it very thoroughly inside and out and you will have a very desirable system.
That blows anything we had in the states away in the 70’s.... I was thinking late 80’s.... the whole time.... what a amazing piece of kit...
Come on, be proud of your RCA record changers and stupid 8 tracks :D
You had almost everything... except for that nuisance of DIN plugs.
@@nvo7024 din plugs weren't that bad. Difficult to insert when you're wasted, other than that it's alright:)
@@DolganoFF Having one common return for both channel - huge nuisance for phono stages. Rules out quite a few useful configurations. Rules out a lot of useful cable stock, etc. And, of course, soldering A Real Man's Cable into the whimsy DIN plug is one hell of an exercise ;)
Marantz? C'mon man. Braun really wasn't THAT good (and their speakers were really crappy)
this would HAVE to be german. so many small features i have never seen before. i see why your friend wanted this! id take it off your hands myself if i could!
I can of envy that friend :)
Wowser! At first look I thought it was some cheap plastic crappy system. It's actually really good!
What an amazing piece of tech from the 70's. The quality of the build and how it's maintained, this goes to show what a great company Braun were/are, that all the functions still work, amazing, given how complex i'd suggest these are to work, for again, that time period. There are elements of design, that is common for the decade, i.e. B&O and Sharp. Which is not to say it's a detraction, i really like it and i think it's a much unloved area of Music systems, over shadowed by 70's stacking systems and radio recievers of that time period.Thanks for bring us somthing very unusual and which i also wnat to add sounds amazing the tuner sounds particuarly good as well. More like this please.
We had some amazing hi fi companies in the UK in the 70,s
what a interesting system thanks for sharing it
What an amazing piece of long lasting 70's technology!
Thank you for showing us such system.
And thank you even more for showing us not to settle for lesser 2-years-old lifespan modern garbage.
Really, thank you.
Absolutely beautiful machine.very well built and sounds superb.
Incredible device. You're my age! I loved the arm movement feature. Hugs from Brazil.
That record control knob is the most sophisticated function I've ever seen in a record player, I wish my turn table has it, although it's fully automatic.
That's an interesting unit. I like that.
That is a really nice music centre. I love the tonearm controls even if I did expect it to be a pitch control.
That FM muting function is brilliant. I love the sound of those relays clicking away as it tries to establish what is and what isn't static.
The muting is done with solid state electronics, the clicking you can hear is just the dial cord mechanism making noise ;)
@@DrCassette Oh, I see. Thanks for letting me know. I need to be on the lookout for one of those, but I doubt they made it overseas.
Fascinating. The moving tonearm is a great idea.
This sort of arm control was not unusual, it's the year 1977 that's striking. Fast forward to around 1983-1985, and there were similar electromagnetically controlled arms by Denon, Sony etc.; even my own Soviet-made TT from 1985 has it. But that was 80s, not 70s. Like most tech fads of the period, it didn't catch up, and then the CD was already there...
nvo I don’t remember them, I guess because I was too young for a high-end turntable at the time.
Very nice, that would have been quite high end for a music centre with the touch controls, Dolby and Shure cartridge.
12:58 ...are you sure it’s not variable, or has at least two speeds? When you brought it back the last time before lowering it seemed slower.
very interesting, thanks for sharing :)
Very nice!
For me it started with this I got a Schneider music center when I was very young it almost looks like the same setup so cool to see it again thanks for the memories
Nice feature on that turntable...first time seeing something like this....very cool✌️✌️✌️
Amazing music centre,I've never seen a record deck like that either,it must've been quite expensive when it was new.
Thanks, what a wonderful piece of equipment.
Brought back some memories, as a kid for Xmas I got my first music centre at the same time this came out and it looked very similar. Sadly the build quality wasn't up the same standard it was a Bush, kept blowing its right channel, took it back in the new year and swapped it for a Sanyo which lasted many years 😄
Very elegant and unique piece.
Amazing!
What a neat system.
That lift system is amazing!
To play a 12” 45 rpm single, can’t you just touch “45” and then use the nifty arm repositioning control to move the stylus to the lead-in groove?
I'm sure you can also just move the arm manually regardless of record size or speed.
@@marcmarcello981 ,notice that it as nothing to handle it manually
Rui Cameira use your hands,
@@ingenfestbrems in my age i dont grab a arm without a handle to drop it on top of the record but that model was made so people didn´t touch the arm, just that i never used a lift but without handle i can just drop it, and i worked 20 years as a dj and also in a radio station but stoped in 97 , regards
Rui Cameira a 12” 45 just press 45 and use the build in lifter and tracking 😊
I know what you mean they put almost everything in that system should have fitted a handle of course 👍🏻
A beautiful piece of engineering.
That is a nice bit of kit. I'd love to find something like that here. The FM section could be fully used here since Europe adopted the same FM multiplex standard, but I would be missing 4 MHz worth of channels. Normally, something like that would be cheap and gimmicky. This is the opposite.
Love it! TFS
I started watching this and thought it's a bottom of the range stereo thrown together but I was wrong. I am impressed and it sounds good too. Subbed!
Thank you :)
OMG. I've never seen a system like this here in the US. This thing looks 10 years ahead of its time and seems to be built really well. I love all the cool functions it has on the record player. If you did want to play a 12" 45RPM record, you would have to manually place the arm down at the beginning of the record after it goes to the 7" position.
There is a function to play 12" records on 45 rpm automatically - watch the addendum to this video (link in the video description).
Love the round buttons
Really interesting construction with the tuner being on top rather than in front. And the automatic cassette deck and record player, a bit higher ended unit for its time.
The arrangement of the components is actually quite common for this style of German made stereo system. They rarely had anything located on the front, because the systems were designed to sit on a table with the user looking down at them.
I prefer these to any cheap rack system. I had a very nice 1979 Panasonic Music Centre which was superb. People will get to like these again because they do everything and do it very well. People used to like rolling a joint , turning out the room lights and watch all the music centre lights blinking away. It made us feel very sophisticated. Lol. I would belt out Gino Vanelli, Robert Palmer or Focus on it. Records, of course. The cassette was still a bit primitive in the late 70s but by 1990 the quality of pre recorded Cassettes was very good and the music centre plays them well.
The Braun is a very Hi end system. This is almost Hi Fi.
Braun was way ahead of its time back in the day. When everyone regarded compact stereos as entry-level stuff with low quality components, they just built something really special.
Did you try to use the manual tonearm control to play back a 12" Maxi?
They were trying to catch the growing "class" of middle managers who wanted stylish gear that represented their level in the society. The West Germany of the 70' was growing at break-neck pace affirming its technological superiority, and the middle class had money to spend and the will to surround themselves with "futuristic" gear.
What about the Sony HMK 70 and the B&O music centres they were high end
Cool system
Interesting design
This is very cool. would love to find one .
11:40 Oh, yes, you can indeed play maxi singles! Touching *both* start buttons simultaneously, and the turntable will start in 45 rpm, but the tonearm will be lowered at the 12'' position.
Edit: 02:50 The sliders labeled "Pegel" are not for balance only. Braun amplifiers have a variabel loudness depending on the position of the volume slider. At zero db (max. volume), the frequency response is linear. The more the volume is reduced the more bass and treble are emphasized, the effect is strongest at -40 db and below. If you want a flat frequency curve at low volume, you have to set volume to -10 db or above and use the "pegel" sliders to control volume.
LIFE SAVING COMMENT. I recently got this system and was wondering why the trebles felt harsh as my volume was low and i had set the balance high. Lowering the pegel and and increasing the volume made sibilance better. Thank you
An excellent piece of German engineering. Thanks for the review. The speed of the tonearm control, however, _does_ seem to be variable. I might be wrong, but at least twice in the video I saw the tonearm move slower when you moved the jog wheel just a little bit to the side.
That is wicked awesome!!!!!!!!
Lovely system, I`m not sure I`d want to work on it though! I`m sure its packed solid with PCBs & wiring looms, good demo, thanks for sharing
That's one lucky friend.. Whoever is taking this home.
wish i were your friend...lol
Lol I am taking this :P
those touch controls look very cool
Used by Grundig too
Слегка даже офигел! )) До этого только подозревал, что такая фирма как Braun не только бритвы классные делала как у меня... А тут такое. ))
Спасибо. Подписываюсь.
What a great music center the record deck is fantastic.. Thank you for posting a very interesting video ...
Nice!
Thanks for showing us this interesting and highly unique system! Great that you show and demonstrate some of this but I suspect most of us are sad that you did not open it up for us to see how it was designed and built...(yes, you explained why you didn’t but we are still disappointed!).
Owner of this machine here.
When I get to do all the restauration work, I can do a little overview of the inside if there is enough interest.
This thing is extremely heavy and bulky, it's most likely a lot of work to disassemble the unit at all.
I can totally understand that if your intention isn't to work on it, you wouldn't want to take it apart "just for fun"
In addition to what I said in the video, you have to know the system is *VERY* heavy. I strained a muscle just moving it, my arm hurt for days after that. So I am certainly not going to move the system any more than absolutely necessary.
Nice video. I have a Braun C4000 I got for free with an Elac turntable. The C4000 is from the same series as this PC4000, without the turntable. Only amplifier, tuner and cassette. According to the previous owner, smoke came out the last time he tried to power it on. Maybe a Knallfrosch, I still have to look inside it.
Interesting, I knew there was a version of this system without cassette deck, but indeed they also made a version without the record player and also a version that only contained the receiver.
Good morning sir, do you know how to adjust the speed of the record player on this systeme or do you have any idea of where i can get more information on this device? when i select 33 or 45 the speed is way too high! thanks in avance
Handling the arm on any record deck was (and is) always a bit tricky. That's certainly is a cool feature on being able to move the arm electrically across the LP record. I tend to use the arm lifter, then push the arm to the desired track - having said that, it's been so long since I've used my LP12 deck!
What a really nice system I definitely have to look into how much they sell for this would be a great replacement for the system I have in my living room currently
OK so I looked it up on ebay and ebay Kleinanzeigen the ones thet were in good working condition were all over 100€ which is understandable since the quality seems very nice
There are some offers that are ridiculously overpriced, but we definitely got lucky when we found this on Ebay Kleinanzeigen for free. And it was good that I sent a message straight away (even though it was like 2 in the morning), because the seller got a lot of messages from other people too.
I think this was a very expensive system at the time. Braun design is beautiful too.
Braun are more well known for kitchen gadgets like food processors and blenders and toiletry items such as electric toothbrushes
and shavers. Many people don't know that Braun used to make hi fi equipment let alone the fact that they made really good stereo systems
such as this one which was in many respects ahead of it's time especially with the touch controls although it's not that surprising they used
sensors instead of buttons ( one of our ex rental Philips G11 TVs also used metal sensors for the channel selector instead of radio style
mechanical buttons ). I think micro switch buttons became more common towards the mid 80s and 90s although I think momentary push
buttons were around in the 70s. Many music centers had AFC as standard which made it easier to tune the radio.
Cool! Reminds me of a B&O Beocenter ... I wonder if this was a competition for said system.
These types of stereo systems were quite common in the 70s, Braun and Bang&Olufsen certainly marked the high end in this product category, but their design philosophy was quite different with B&O using more traditional materials such as wood grain and brushed aluminium. Wega also had a very noteworthy design of a stereo system like these.
Ah, I love Braun aesthetics from the '70. The only company to use green LED for stereo indicator, instead of red. Because they could have! My collection lacks the Braun PC-1, to accompany my RS-1. They are 60cm wide, very "wide stereo", pun intended.
That’s a great looking system. Quite impressed by the automatic turntable, it’s operation is very quite. On most Dual automatics your can hear some of the mechanical parts working when it’s going through it’s cycle. I wonder if this brown deck has motorised the tone arm movement, I’m very curious about how they designed this. It’s very neat. It looks like a bespoke design, most of these systems used OEM players from Dual or PE.
Yes, the record player is Braun's own design, that alone makes it quite special. The tone arm is indeed driven by its own motor.
I have a similar system in my basement, many seem to be the same but rebranded with different record players
Amazing design from dieter rams
Aww I love it. And I was born 1977 too.
i thought these were amazingly expensive now. In the uk we pronounce the brand as Brawn ie to rhyme with Prawn as in Prawn Cocktail . Rather than Brown so it really good to hear the proper German pronouncement. I guess at the time 45 rpm 12 inch singles weren't a thing. Many thanks for sharing this. Really interesting!
I remember something similar: Braun was good stuff. This one is really interesting piece and very user friendly other that no MixiSingle playback, which came a bit later in '80s. This is the first time I see gramophone like this one, really cool for consumer product. l think Uher made similar products, but mostly Tower systems. Unfortunately Mini Towers were easier to place in most European apartments than the Braun featured in the video, and Made in Japan was taking over the world, which meant End for many European companies - only Bang & Olufsen still exist (ICE, ICE baby😉). Maybe consumer were to quick to decide what to buy, killing native industry. Today we have Chi-Fi, as the Japanese Hi-Fi is not what it was in it's golden era when CD or Cassette was the playback standard at home.
With that arm lift function you could indeed play 12 inch singles. Simply select 45 then use the arm lift to bring the arm back to the start? Nice system!
There is a function to play 12" records on 45 rpm automatically - watch the addendum to this video (link in the video description).
That reminds me of the Luxor Amp and cassette deck that i saw for free on facebook it had been posted 15 minutes ago and when i clicked on it was gone :(
That's some bad luck! But I had similar things happen to me in the past. You don't always get lucky... Luxor equipment is very rare here in Germany, not even sure if they exported anything to Germany. I have never seen any of their equipment before except on photos.
@@DrCassette Yeah i think Luxor only was sold here in Sweden,Denmark and Norway.
It's really recommend to renew all power supply capacitors from these Braun units (including the one in the end of the tape deck unit below the counter). These capacitors are the main reason for damages of the complex electronics on these machines because they could cause wrong voltages. Any unit from the 70s has for sure half or fully has worn capacitors!
Cool toy 👍😎
nice i like this unit it almost seems braun was connected with ads audio mmmm? thier design looks same id drive miles to get that one too lol i love all in one stereos especially when their good quality .
That is one such nice machine there,,,never had seen a tone arm control that follows your finger movement left and right to put the tone arm down anywhere on a record b4,,,,,that,s awesome.
Have saved your video too.
Didn't know there were no am stations in Germany?
We still have plenty of am and fm stereo radio stations here in Australia.
AM radio here in Germany was already mostly irrelevant in the 90s. The last public radio station to broadcast on AM pulled the plug a couple of years ago.
@@DrCassette Ok. As we still rely on am radio stations in the country where there is no fm reception in outback Australia,,,and am goes a lot further in distance compared to fm in regional country areas.
Braun was not sold in the States that I know of. In Germany was Braun a high-end product or more of a pedestrian brand? Any idea of the cost of this when new?
Braun did at some point try to enter the US market, but somehow that plan was never completed. Braun made high-end products. When new, this system cost 2800 DM, converted and corrected for inflation that is about 3500€.
Could the cool cue feature on the record player not allow you to overide the 7" to 45rpm and 12" to 33rpm ??? Then you could play 12" 45's or 7" 33's - Maybe?
Maybe, I'll have to try that...
A unique stereo system for the
year 1977.
Die Canton Lautsprecher von Damals klangen geil.
That unit is amazing. I assume AM was discontinued because of DAB?
AM never had the same importance here in Germany as it had in for example the US. Over here, by the 1990s AM was pretty much irrelevant, so it was just a question of time until the last German (public) radio station broadcasting on AM decided to pull the plug. This however has nothing to do with DAB which uses frequencies once used by analog terrestrial TV. DAB here in Germany is still rarely used, there are even still areas where you can't get any reception. You could say DAB today is what AM was in the 90s :P
@@DrCassette also, AM stations are much more costly to run, those huge powerful tranceivers are hard to maintain.
@@DolganoFF You can't broadcast AM with suppressed carrier, so the power consumption (and therefore cost) of an AM transmitter is astronomical.
@@DrCassette exactly.
And power devices in the transmitters aren't even manufactured anymore. In some of the AM stations they still use liquid cooled valves. Designed in the 50's...
Cool
Hi, how much will this cost now,used?
Ich könnte an so eine Anlage von Grundig auch rankommen, jetzt muss ich sie wohl wirklich holen :P
Das überleg dir nochmal. Grundig hat zwar auch diese Pultanlagen hergestellt, aber die sind sowohl in Design als auch in technischen Merkmalen weit weniger besonders. Meistens Standardware mit einfachem Tuner, schwachem Verstärker, einfachstem mechanischen Cassettendeck und Standard-Plattenwechsler, z.B. von Dual zugeliefert. Meiner Meinung nach ist sowas Platzverschwendung. Wenn Pultanlage, dann Braun, Wega oder Bang&Olufsen.
@@DrCassette Wäre aber wohl kostenlos, deshalb auch die Überlegung.
If you play a twelve inch single at 45 rpm, couldn't you manually lift the arm up and place it at the beginning?
Braun has implemented a hidden function to play 12" singles at 45 RPM. Watch the addendum to this video to find out :)
***** Super.
so, Braun did make audio stuff too? that's a brand that I didn't have heard from in a long time, it still exists?
Braun made audio and video equipment until 1990, when they left that market. But they do still exist today, making small kitchen appliances and personal care products.
Very interesting device with some odd (to me) features: sliders for balance is quite unusual and given the size of the whole deck who would want to use it with an external tape deck or record player ?
If you wanted to play 78 RPM records or make a copy from a cassette you would need to connect an external record player or cassette deck, so it is nice that there are connections on the system to do that.
This was a top tier fancy pants system - if you could afford that you probably had enough space and wanted to connect your other gear, likely a real to real deck...
@@DolganoFF Yes, it really looks like expensive stuff, similar to a B&O only made in the 70's. Tape transport is very nice, although there is no fine BIAS adjustment and I guess it records what is being played as there is no record selector. The turntable is very cool (you can also fit other cartridge which is very nice), but having fixed speed/record size would prevent playing some of my LP's. In the amplifier section there is a lot of free real estate, in the 80's it would have been filled with pointless graph and specifications. It indeed appears modern mostly because industrial design made by Braun has been a great inspiration for many recent designers, and among those Jonathan Ive, former Apple designer and Job's protegee.
@@enricoself2256 yes, the limited choice of record formats also speaks of certain elitism "I can afford to buy only those" - this was targeted to high-middle class that was booming in the West Germany of that time.
Wow, what a unique piece of equipment. Is this the same Braun that make shavers and personal care products these days? Did you mention what the DIN sockets on the control panel near the cassette and record players do?
Yes, this is still the same Braun. They still exist, but production of audio and video equipment ended in 1990. The socket next to the record player is for headphones, and the socket next to the cassette deck is for microphones. The placement of these sockets is not ideal, because if you have something plugged in, you can't really close the cover anymore without pinching the cable. It would have been better to put the sockets on the front, but of course that would have conflicted with the design.
@@DrCassette Sounds like Braun paid quite some attention to cosmetic design when they made home entertainment equipment. Was their equipment generally considered good quality? This unit sure seems to have been designed and engineered reasonably well. I know that stereo systems of this design were common in the 70s and early 80s, my Nanna had a Sanyo stereo system which had a similar design, only the audio controls and radio tuner dials were on the front, not under the lid.
Braun equipment was excellent quality. One of the reasons they left the audio and video market in 1990 was because with all the competition coming in from far east, they were no longer able to compete while keeping up this quality standard. But instead of reducing quality, they stopped making the products.
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You got to tell us some of the tracks on the rock follies lp please?
wonderful piece wish I had it turntable grate features grate video
You Can Play larg LP in 45 you Must Presse 45 and 33 at the Same Time!
Thanks for the info, it works!
that's a brand you don't see often besides shavers and hairdryers. atleast not in finland. cool device sadly the cover hinge is broken...
Braun made audio equipment and even TVs until 1990, when they rather suddenly left that market. They were famous for their very minimalistic, clean and technical design. In the end competition from far east got too big and they decided rather than reducing cost and consequently quality, they would cease production of audio and video equipment.
The PC4000 does have the tape 2 input, you could connect the TV to that.
Some of Braun's audio devices were designed by Dieter Rams, and were a big inspiration to Jony Ive, the previous head of design at Apple. The iPod was very much modeled after the Braun T3 radio, for example.
@@Dan-TechAndMusic Braun T3 radio for the visual design, Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 6000 phone for the clickwheel interface.
Damn - I just looked at bottom of my coffee grinder - a Braun. I had it once apart to clean the switch and adjust it. It will keep going for another 20+ years.
They sold photo cameras too (but these were rebounded Japanese models like Minolta and Yashica) if I remember well
So it actually can play 12" records at 45rpm by using the manual function as you demonstrated.
Actually it's even better: If you press 33 and 45 at the same time, it plays 12" singles automatically with all correct settings. I demonstrated this function in an add-on to this video.
FM band ends at 104 MHz
Quite a lot of devices only went up to 104 mHz, at least in Germany. I luckyly have a Nordmende radio recorder here from the 70's that goes up to 108 mHz
@@DaXande135 Yeah, I have a pair of Telefunken (a partner 500 and a Interfunk CR5000) that only go up to 104. I recall some NordMende were rebadged Sanyo, like the Globerecorder 4084, a Sanyo M9990LU with some trim mods.
In the old days only to 104MHz
Has a magnetic cartridge..impressive.
This is a high-end system, of course it has a magnetic cartridge.
@drcassette
I woukd love to know who designed this unit. It has many subtle styling elements of a period BMW or Porsche 928 interiors. Looks fantastic simple but beautiful..elegant is the correct description.
This system was designed by Dieter Rams.
@@DrCassette Thank you for the reply. I knew there had to be some connection to Rams and the Porsche design teams.
Dieter Rams worked for Braun from 1955 until 1995. He designed many (but not all) of their products.
a expensive one you have there, braun had a design components for hi-fi either than shaving machines and and mixers for milk shakes or fruit "shakes"(don´t know how it´s called in english), normally it would cost a lot